This game is mainly an exercise in wish-fulfillment for me. In 1st Grade I wanted a Dukes of Hazzard lunch box, but my mom got me Peanuts. Needless to say, I spent the next eight years nerdy and unpopular.

I wont begin to judge the GMs manhood, but I will say that anyone who is a fan of action, westerns, sci fi, good acting, or good writing should most definitely see Firefly, and its conclusion, Serenity.

I just this week saw four or five full episodes for the first time. (I saw it twice in first run and didn’t like it). I’ve decided that the captain makes more sense as a Blaxploitation character, but that’s a casting road not traveled.

SO I somehow managed to completely miss the comments section. My apologies.
My name really is Colin Jory. Im 24 and my only rpg experience has been with DND and video game rpgs. One of my favorites is Fallout 3 so I look forward to this campaign. I have never done a play by post, so bear with me if I stumble or break some etiquette.

You’d have thunk by now I’d not have any further mistakes in my first post, but no, I still managed to describe the color of his jacket wrong (blue faded to grey, not grey faded to grey). I also decided he had no title or character tag show up.

Am I the only one who hasn’t played with this group before? My real life name is Tim, I’m 35, I’ve at least dabbled with most major systems. I played D+D for years as a lad, then off and on as an adult. I ran a sort of Batman meets movies and shit I like low level superhero game using the Hero System for more or less 17 years in various locales (13 in one area) before I moved and running a regular game wasn’t possible anymore. In my high school-early post college years I ran a lot of Call of Cthluhu. I’ve played a lot of Champions. My big experience with GURPS was in a cyberpunk game that also ripped off a game called Syndicate that I never played. I’m a native Nutmegger turned Masshole. I met Ed at a B-Movie forum that’s connected to B-Fest and we just sort of glommed onto each other and became online friends, though I have met him a few times at B-Fest. I don’t really game anymore, though I do watch too many movies and blog about them. Probably TMI, eh?

Fair enough. My name is Chris, but I also answer to LF (That’s short for LiaoFan, my nomnomnom de plume on a Battletech-related website, which is also where I ‘met’ most of the guys here). I’m 37 (I’m not old), and am starting a new chapter in my life. It’s hard, but I’m sure it’ll work out.

I’m working security at [REDACTEDFORYOURSAFETY], a large resort in Las Vegas. Good times. I’ve probably played everything out there save Gurps and D&D (I mean, I dabbled, but there was always a game of D6 Star Wars going on, or Robotech, or something, so screw that stuff), and my favorite games are Human Occupied Landfill, and All Flesh Must Be Eaten.

I’m Jonathan, I own a coffee shoppe, play Battletech and DnD mostly. I GM a game here on OP, and play a handful if other games as well. Neko, LF, and I have been friends for about 12 years, Edward and I for something like 8, Colin and I for maybe 4.

I give LF a lot of crap, but only because he’s good at dishing it back, and because Edward, as GM, is off limits. ;)

“If there’s one Russian left, and two of us, we’ve won!” — att. General Curtis LeMay

Almost all of the nation’s industrial and intellectual resources will be destroyed. Virtually all of the universities. Practically all of the factories. Worse, the people who can build and maintain them were likely killed in the exchange or died in the difficult few years after the war. Anything requiring mass-production, precision workmanship, electricity…the sinews of modern life, anything of that nature will have been beyond the productive capacity of the survivors. The postwar recovery didn’t come because people were reduced to subsistence and scavenger economies, salvaging what they could from the cities, struggling to grow food, or simply killing people who had what they wanted.

Edward linked me to this though he says that in that scenario, the USSR got off a lot more missiles than in our campaign.

I’m struck by how “not bad” it is. I realize that the US Population is SAVAGED, but what I mean is that from what he says, most of the United States is inhabitable in a few years after the war. This means that people who survive two to three years will be able to begin rebuilding an infrastructure, and that any manufacturing plants which were not destroyed an are not in a hot zone could still be operable with some work.

In other words, the Jeremiah or Book of Eli levels of devastation and societal breakdown do not seem to be apparent even in the worst case scenario as painted by the above listed link. Sure, our population is reduced by 200 million, I’m not meaning to make light of that. But what I mean is that there is still a little more than 25% of our population remaining, and that within three years much of the nation can be inhabited somewhat safely again. So maybe the cities are all still too hot, I get that, but there’s a lot of the meat and potatoes of our society that goes on away from cities.

And frankly, humans are social creatures. We will band together and rebuild. Old electronics will be repaired, communications will be re-established, and I would imagine that within 40 years there would be a functioning overarching government complete with infrastructure. Heck, I’d even guess that there would be somewhat of an upswing in nationalism in response to surviving an attack from another country.

Neko, if you consider sterility a mutant power, than yes. Most radiation has subsided after forty years; only the truly foolish or unlucky or those who were alive to live through the war might have radiation sickness.